Tag Archives: Emacs

If you’re an Irreal regular, you’ve probably guessed that I’m a fan of Charles Choi and his work. He even got me to change my mind about using proportional text for writing blogs—an idea I was initially resistant to—and marginally … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s Red Meat Friday post on Why Lisp “Lost” has a backstory. As I often do, I wrote it the night before and had it queued up for publication on Friday. But I also like to read through the posts … Continue reading →

Almost every Emacs user knows that you can use Esc as the Meta key. It started because keyboards between, say, the Space Cadet keyboard and modern keyboards didn’t have an Alt key to act as Meta. The practice lives on. … Continue reading →

A month ago, I wrote about Bozhidar Batsov’s post on debugging in Emacs. The idea was simple: if Emacs got an error, you could turn on debug-on-error and rerun the offending command. When the error occurs, Emacs will produce a … Continue reading →

If you’re like me and hate CamelCaseMode and all its evil brethren, there’s a solution: glasses-mode. Ruslan Bekenev reminds us of a long standing command that will display camel case names as underscore delimited instead. By “display” I mean that … Continue reading →

It’s a common complaint that Emacs is hard to configure. After all, you have to learn Elisp and all sorts of other arcana just so you can edit a file. It’s all nonsense, of course. Lots of non-programmers and even … Continue reading →